The National Republican Comgressional Committee (NRCC) unleashed a torrent of attacks on newly minted representative Brad Ellsworth today. On a website titled "The REAL Brad Ellsworth," the NRCC notes a long list of broken campaign promises and radically liberal positions. Here are some highlights:

• On the campaign trail, Candidate Ellsworth signed the Americans for Tax Reform Taxpayer Protection Pledge, promising to oppose any and all efforts to increase taxes. Yet, "within the first 15 days of Democrat-control of Congress, he sided with his liberal leadership, voting for a $6.5 billion tax hike - the first tax increase in 13 years."
  
• In a stunning payback to Big Labor for delivering hundreds of millions of dollars in campaign contributions and a Democrat victory on election day, Brad Ellsworth voted to strip away a worker's democratic right to a private union ballot.
  
• By voting for the Democrats' $124 billion supplemental spending bill, Ellsworth voted for legislation "stuffed full of pork," according to the Citizens Against Government Waste, which put the level of pork for 2006 at $29 billion.
  
• Ellsworth has voted with the liberal San Francisco Speaker Nancy Pelosi 95% of the time.

To date, Evansville's primary news publication, the Courier & Press, has not published a single article on the $29 billion in earmarked pork spending, the $6.5 billion tax increase, or Ellsworth breaking his pledge to oppose such tax hikes.